A self-published autobiography of John C. Shaw, educator and former president of West Liberty Normal School (now West Liberty State College) from 1908-1919.
newspapers; floods; disasters; college towns; colleges
This is a special edition paper printed by Pikeville College in the aftermath of the Flood of 1977. While its purpose was to seek funding for the college after the crisis, this paper also relates first-hand accounts of the flood and how it...
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jack Hyder, who married during the intermission of the school play when both were students at Milligan College. After graduating in 1916, the couple raised their family in a home adjacent to campus (now the College's Hyder House,...
This photograph of a community road and adjoining railroad line is adjacent to the township of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee; it shows the gravel road with homes in the upper quadrant, with electric poles are evident towards the central area of the...
Adjacent to the campus was the college farm. The eighty acres of fertile soil available for tillage were used to grow legumes, hay, corn, silage, and other crops for feeding cows, hogs, poultry, and work stock and to grow vegetables for consumption...